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Graham, Steve; McKeown, Debra; Kiuhara, Sharlene; Harris, Karen R. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2012
In an effort to identify effective instructional practices for teaching writing to elementary grade students, we conducted a meta-analysis of the writing intervention literature, focusing our efforts on true and quasi-experiments. We located 115 documents that included the statistics for computing an effect size (ES). We calculated an average…
Descriptors: Intervention, Teaching Methods, Grammar, Meta Analysis
Ong, Justina; Zhang, Lawrence Jun – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2013
Little is known about the effects of various planning and revising conditions on composition quality in experimental or TESOL education research. This study examined the effects of planning conditions (planning, prolonged planning, free writing, and control), subplanning conditions (task-given, task-content-given, and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Cognitive Processes, Writing (Composition)
Liu, Pei-Lin – Computers & Education, 2011
This study aims to examine the effect of using computerized concept maps during the pre-writing phase on learners' writing performance. The research questions were: (1) What are the impacts of different computerized concept mapping treatments (no-mapping, individual-mapping, and cooperative-mapping) on writing performance for learners of different…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Writing Assignments, Cooperative Learning, College Freshmen
Damber, Ulla – Journal of Education and Learning, 2013
Literacy acquisition by using computers and computer tablets is rapidly gaining ground in Swedish classrooms. This article explores the hypothesis that computer-writing vitalizes the learning of literacy, in comparison with approaches using books and pencils. The results of two separate studies in two different settings where prewriting and…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Skill Development, Hypothesis Testing, Computer Uses in Education
Mahnam, Lily; Nejadansari, Dariush – International Education Studies, 2012
This study aimed at investigating whether applying pre-writing strategies would affect the quality of L2 learners' compositions. Twenty three adult EFL students from Jahad-e-Daneshgahi English centre in Iran participated in this study. They were randomly assigned to control and experimental groups, including 11 and 12 participants in each. They…
Descriptors: Prewriting, Writing Strategies, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Beauvais, Caroline; Olive, Thierry; Passerault, Jean-Michel – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2011
Two experiments examined whether text quality is related to online management of the writing processes. Experiment 1 focused on the relationship between online management and text quality in narrative and argumentative texts. Experiment 2 investigated how this relationship might be affected by a goal emphasizing text quality. In both experiments,…
Descriptors: Protocol Analysis, Prewriting, Psychology, Word Processing
Piri, Faramarz; Barati, Hossein; Ketabi, Saeed – English Language Teaching, 2012
Previous studies on the effect of planning on language production have revealed that planning does have a positive effect on language performance in terms of fluency, complexity, and accuracy. The present study was an attempt to investigate the effects of pre-task, on-line, and both pre-task and on-line planning on fluency, accuracy, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Dickey, Michele D. – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
The purpose of this research is to investigate the impact of narrative design in a game-based learning environment. Specifically, this investigation focuses the narrative design in an adventure-styled, game-based learning environment for fostering argumentation writing by looking at how the game narrative impacted player/learner (1) intrinsic…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Personality Traits, Investigations, Persuasive Discourse
Lorenz, Barbara; Green, Tim; Brown, Abbie – Computers in the Schools, 2009
The use of multimedia graphic organizer software and how it influenced the prewriting process for primary school children were evaluated. An analysis of writing samples generated by second-grade students with diverse writing abilities was carried out. Students were given two opportunities to participate in prewriting activities--one without and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Prewriting, Grade 2, Computer Software
Hong, Carrie Eunyoung; Mongillo, Geraldine; Wilder, Hilary – Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
This study explored how college freshmen at a mid-sized public university in north-eastern United States used Twitter, an anytime/anywhere writing technology, to support and promote the writing process by using tweets as a pre-writing activity. Two of the authors taught a joint course of First Year Seminar and Basic Reading in which the same group…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Freshman Composition, Social Media, Computer Mediated Communication
Bruce, David L. – English Journal, 2011
Storyboards deliver a narrative through discrete visual representations. The purpose of the storyboards was always to "scaffold" the final product and students were free to add, delete, or adapt those images that were most helpful to their project. The storyboards served as a brainstorming activity, much like a prewriting exercise for a written…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Visual Aids, Instructional Materials, Planning
Whitney, Anne; Blau, Sheridan; Bright, Alison; Cabe, Rosemary; Dewar, Tim; Levin, Jason; Macias, Roseanne; Rogers, Paul – English Education, 2008
With respect to the writing process in particular, a now well-established body of research demonstrates that process-oriented writing instruction benefits student achievement in writing. Process-oriented terms and concepts have entered the material environment of America's schools, in textbooks and curricula even where the theoretical bases…
Descriptors: Inservice Education, Prewriting, Teaching Methods, Process Approach (Writing)
Odom, Janice M. – CEA Forum, 2009
Of the vexed issues confronting teachers of the first-year writing sequence, none is more frustrating than that of getting students to write in the drafting stages. And not just "to" write, but to write the right thing. The solution that the Composition literature offers to the problem of fluency and content development is process. That…
Descriptors: English, Heuristics, Research Papers (Students), Writing (Composition)
Lee, Icy – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2011
In second-language writing, assessment has traditionally focused on the written products and how well (or badly) students perform in writing. Teachers dominate the assessment process as testers, while students remain passive testees. Assessment is something teachers "do to" rather than '"with" students, mainly for…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction
Worden, Dorothy L. – Assessing Writing, 2009
It is widely assumed that the constraints of timed essay exams will make it virtually impossible for students to engage in the major hallmarks of the writing process, especially revision, in testing situations. This paper presents the results of a study conducted at Washington State University in the Spring of 2008. The study examined the…
Descriptors: Timed Tests, Writing Evaluation, Writing Tests, Educational Assessment